'Narrative of a journey to the site of Babylon in 1811, now first published: memoir on the ruins; with engravings from the original sketches by the author: remarks on the topography of ancient Babylon, by Major Rennell; in reference to the memoir: second memoir on the ruins; in reference to Major Rennell's remarks: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis: now first printed, with hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis: by the late Claudius James Rich, Esq., formerly the Resident of the Hon. East India Company at Bagdad. Edited by his widow.' [‎79] (163/474)

OP BABYLON.
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ruins named El Mokhatat and El Adouar
(j\yS$\). Four leagues below Hillah, on the same
side of the Euphrates, but not on the bank, is a
village called Jerbouiya (cUc^s-), near which is a
considerable collection of ruins similar to those of
Babylon, and called by the natives Boursa
probably the Borosippa of Strabo, and Barsita of
Ptolemy.* The governor of Hillah informed me of
a mound as large as the Mujelibe, situated thirty-
five hours to the southward of Hillah ; and that a few
years ago, a cap or diadem of pure gold, and some
other articles of the same metal, were found there,
which the Khezail Arabs refused to give up to the
Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. . In the western desert, bearing N. W. from
the top of the Mujelibe, is a large mound called
Towereij In the same desert, two leagues
to the west of Hillah, is the village of Tahmasia,
built by Shah Tahmas, where, it is said, are some
trifling mounds ; this village must occupy part of the
site of Babylon. From the top of the Mujelibe in a
southerly direction, at a great distance, two large
mounds are visible, with whose names I am unac
quainted. Five or six miles to the east of Hillah is
* quasi "Vi in Chaldean, whence the Greek Boro
sippa, is, according to the Talmuds, the name of the place in Babel
near the Tower, whose air renders a man forgetful. I have not yet
had leisure to search the Talmud and other Hebrew and Chaldean
works for the traditions concerning Babylon, and am unwilling to
detain this memoir (which has already been so much and so unex
pectedly retarded) any longer for such information: but I have
some hopes of being able to make it the subject of a future communi
cation.